Mormon-"Isms"

[KevinG]

Objects: Submit almost anything (except green Jell-O®).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45CHLPg39Kg

[mfbukowski]

Objects: Submit almost anything (except green Jell-O®).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45CHLPg39Kg

Yeah, it is!

Edited November 3, 2011 by mfbukowski

[mfbukowski]

I've got another one: Yonder Heaven. Not just any heaven, but Yonder Heaven.

[Thinking]

Dry Mormon

[Sky]

Bishopric

YSA = Young Single Adult

Fireside

Linger Longer, Snack & Chat, Feed the Ward, Mingle & Munch, etc.

FHE = Family Home Evening

Home and Visiting Teaching (where else besides the Church do you get assigned to be somebody’s friend)?

Duty to God

For the Strength of Youth

Choose the Right

Elders Quorum

Relief Society

General Conference

The Ensign

Jack Mormon

Active, less active, inactive

Testimony

Temple Recommend Holder

Garments

Triple Combination

The list is almost endless!

Edited November 3, 2011 by Sky

[KevinG]

Nice list

Edited November 3, 2011 by DaddyG

[mfbukowski]

Yeah, but if the church lady were Mormon she would pronounce it "spatial" with that Utah twang. It's a "playjure" to be here. Very spayshul".

And "preparatory" is ALWAYS "pre-pair-a- tory" and never "preper-a-tory".

They actually taught me, in the temple, that saying it the "other way" was "wrong", those dang Eastern "preper-a-tory" school boys notwithstanding

Edited November 3, 2011 by mfbukowski

[volgadon]

And "preparatory" is ALWAYS "pre-pair-a- tory"

I don't think I want a Tory.

[Scott Lloyd]

And "preparatory" is ALWAYS "pre-pair-a- tory" and never "preper-a-tory".

They actually taught me, in the temple, that saying it the "other way" was "wrong", those dang Eastern "preper-a-tory" school boys notwithstanding

It's funny when people are pedantic and wrong at the same time.

I once had a ward choir director (she was not a Utahn, by the way) who insisted that we pronounce the word tumult with a short sound on the vowel in the first syllable, as in "tummy." Had she looked it up, she would have learned that it is pronounced TOO-mult.

Edited November 3, 2011 by Scott Lloyd

[seriously honestly]

"Fry sauce."

I know it's a Utah (not just LDS) thing, but I jokingly asked a cashier at a fast food restaurant in California if they had any fry sauce when I was there last weekend. The look they gave me was priceless.

Idahoans love their fry sauce too

[mfbukowski]

I don't think I want a Tory.

But I could use a Whig.

[mfbukowski]

Idahoans love their fry sauce too

First time I ever heard of the stuff, and I lived in Utah for a year. Dunno how I missed that!

[LeSellers]

First time I ever heard of the stuff, and I lived in Utah for a year. Dunno how I missed that!

Get thee to a N'Arctic Circle!!

Lehi

[mfbukowski]

Get thee to a N'Arctic Circle!!

Lehi

THAT'S the problem. I moved to SLC from Southern California, and thought the winters reminded me of the Great Lakes winters I knew as a child.

The Arctic Circle was the last place I wanted to be!

...N'Arctic Circle...

That reminds me of Lon G-eye-land, which is that big suburb that sticks out into the Atlantic from New York!

Edited November 4, 2011 by mfbukowski

[TruthSeeker24]

I think the most complicated and differing word that Mormons have is "damnation." In the Evangelical Christian sense, this simply means hell fire and eternal damnation. But in our sense of the word, an individual is "damned" by simply disobeying his father. The difference is, we view damnation as a stopping point, so that individual would be damned to stop his progression in that specific area until he repented. I think if people better understood what Mormons mean by the word, "damn," we wouldn't be having as many debates.

[Cobalt-70]

Its biblical - as well as BofM - terminology.

As to what the typical modern American teenager thinks about certain traditional patterns of language usage within the Church, well, I'll just leave that alone for now (and I'm not sure why the "teenager," being a rather recent cultural creation (just since the fifties), gets to be the central determinant of how language is traditionally been used in the Church to describe various of its activities and theological concepts).

The term Holy Spirit is used in the Book of Mormon, too. If there are two possible terms we can use, why not use the one that makes us sound less weird?

[Cobalt-70]

I think the most complicated and differing word that Mormons have is "damnation." In the Evangelical Christian sense, this simply means hell fire and eternal damnation. But in our sense of the word, an individual is "damned" by simply disobeying his father. The difference is, we view damnation as a stopping point, so that individual would be damned to stop his progression in that specific area until he repented. I think if people better understood what Mormons mean by the word, "damn," we wouldn't be having as many debates.

That's because some Mormons confuse the word damn with the word dam. I've actually heard Mormons explain it that way, that damnation is like damming a river, thus preventing its forward progress. In real Mormon theology, of course, damnation means suffering torment for one's sins in the afterlife, just like it means to other Christians, the difference being that in Mormon theology, damnation is permanent only for those who committed the unpardonable sin. Everyone else gets redeemed and inherits a dominion in one of the heavenly degrees of glory.

[Calm]

The state of being stopped in one’s progress and denied access to the presence of God and his glory. Damnation exists in varying degrees. All who do not obtain the fulness of celestial exaltation will to some degree be limited in their progress and privileges, and they will be damned to that extent.

http://lds.org/scriptures/gs/damnation?lang=eng&query=damnation

For "real mormon theology" I tend to trust LDS.org.

[Cobalt-70]

I have a few pet peeves:

"the Gospel" -- used to refer to generic Mormon doctrine, rather than to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

"I know that X is true", when X is something like Scouting, family home evening, or the Welfare Program.

"the mission field" --used to mean everywhere but Utah.

"having the Priesthood in my home"--meaning that a man lives there.

praying that junk food will "nourish and strengthen us."

"having same sex attraction"--a euphemism for being gay or lesbian. Better yet: the acronym "having SSA."

"take out your Endowments" (where do you want to take them?).

"spiritual giant."

"Lamanites"--as applied to Native Americans, or especially Polynesians.

And finally: "Black babies are cute."

[altersteve]

"the Gospel" -- used to refer to generic Mormon doctrine, rather than to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

Not really. The gospel is God's plan of happiness.

But that's just a quibble.

Edited November 10, 2011 by altersteve

[altersteve]

praying that junk food will "nourish and strengthen us."

What's even better, I think, is when people pray that healthy food will "nourish and strengthen us." As if there's a chance it won't otherwise. I mean, I get why people do it (I do it myself), but I think it's funny. I think Heavenly Father probably thinks it's funny too.

Edited November 10, 2011 by altersteve

[Nemesis]

And finally: "Black babies are cute."

Really? This thread is about mormon-isms. This isn't even close and says a lot more about you than about "mormons" you are trying to diss.

Nemesis

[TruthSeeker24]

I completely agree Cobalt

[Cobalt-70]

Not really. The gospel is God's plan of happiness.

But that's just a quibble.

I prefer the definition of "gospel" that is attributed to Jesus in the Book of Mormon: "[T]his is my gospel which I have given unto you--that I came into the world to do the will of my Father, because my Father sent me" 3 Nephi 27:13. Another good Mormon definition of "gospel" is D&C 76:40-42: "And this is the gospel, the glad tidings, which the voice out of the heavens bore record unto us--that he came into the world, even Jesus, to be crucified for the world, and to bear the sins of the world, and to sanctify the world, and to cleanse it from all unrighteousness; that through him all might be saved whom the Father had put into his power and made by him."

That Jesus came to save us is the "good news." What we do in response to the good news is, in my view, not the gospel itself. The article of faith says that the gospel is associated with "principles and ordinances," but I don't think those principles and ordinances are, themselves, the "good news."

Edited November 10, 2011 by Cobalt-70

[Cobalt-70]

Really? This thread is about mormon-isms. This isn't even close and says a lot more about you than about "mormons" you are trying to diss.

I'm not trying to "diss" all Mormons. Just a little friendly mocking of Mormons who talk like that, who happen to include members of my own family.

Edited November 10, 2011 by Cobalt-70